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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: more POLL... fun
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:21:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204152133.GI22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3199712.spOmaGJUoN@wuerfel>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:16:50AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I don't remember why we put in fasync support, but I have checked the libspe
> implementation and found that it doesn't use it (not a big surprise there).
> It always uses epoll() to get notifications from spufs, and based on your
> explanation I assume everything else (there may have been one or two users
> that used the low-level interfaces rather than libspe) did too.

OK...  So should we just rip ->{mfc,ibox,wbox}_fasync out, along with all
three kill_fasync() and ->fasync() instances in there?  We obviously need to
leave spufs_{mfc,ibox,wbox}_callback() in place for the sake of those
wake_up_all(&ctx->{mfc,ibox,wbox}_wq); in them...

I mean, fasync in there obviously never been used at all - it never delivered
a single SIGIO, and the first user to try would get the BUG_ON() in fcntl.c
instead.  Since nobody complained in more than 10 years...

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20151127131843.0416fe2b@recife.lan>
     [not found]   ` <CA+55aFw-9Y6c-wgiXkyFuce7bqA-RQsRUuW6wC42ayoN4nVo6g@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20151130030427.GY22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-04  6:38       ` more POLL... fun Al Viro
2015-12-04  9:16         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-04 15:21           ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-12-04 17:13             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-04 17:30               ` Al Viro
2015-12-04 17:34                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-06 23:58                 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-16  5:59                 ` Michael Ellerman

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